For the first time, the University of Michigan Department of Astronomy is leading the launch of a satellite into space.

DIY Michelson-Morley interferometer proves precision with Raspberry Pi and Lego. Affordable setup by Kyra Cole highlights ...

LIGO is one of the largest pieces of scientific equipment in the world. It consists of two 4 kilometers by 4 kilometers-long laser interferometers. One of these interferometers is in inland Washington ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which has been known to fund the development of some pretty ...

This technique can be defined as a “frame rate” limited method. The Twyman-Green interferometers offered by 4D Technology use a completely different method. Using a polarization-based Dynamic ...

Image Credit: 4D Technology. Phase-Shifting Interferometers are Limited by Vibration and Turbulence In phase-shifting interferometers, time elapses while acquiring the measurement data, and this ...

LIGO has two widely-separated 4-km-long interferometers -- in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana -- that work together to detect gravitational waves by employing high-power laser beams.